The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 107
In due time it happened as the woman had said; but the first that the queen gave birth to was a hideous lindorm, or serpent.
Who acts: it, woman, first · What happens: happen, say, give, be · To what, where: birth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, woman, first), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 happened | obl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 happened | nsubj |
| 5 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 said | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | aux |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 happened | advcl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 gave | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 gave | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 first | det |
| 14 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 gave | nsubj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 gave | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 queen | det |
| 17 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | nsubj |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 happened | conj |
| 19 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 lindorm | case |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 lindorm | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 lindorm | det |
| 23 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 lindorm | amod |
| 24 | lindorm | lindorm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 serpent | punct |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 serpent | cc |
| 27 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lindorm | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | the woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | give | past | the first | birth | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birth=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | to a hideous lindorm or serpent | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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